Collection consists of programs and invitations, Knights Templar ribbons, postcards, manuscripts, and photographs related to the life of Mrs. Emma Faser Birchett spanning the dates of 1874-1988, but predominantly during the early 20th century.

Mrs. Emma Faser Birchett Collection (MUM00032). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.

Scope and Contents Note

Collection consists of programs and invitations, Knights Templar ribbons, postcards, manuscripts, and photographs related to the life of Mrs. Emma Faser Birchett spanning the dates of 1874-1988, but predominantly during the early 20th century.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open.

Use Restriction

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Container List

BOX 1Folder 1: Graduation Programs
-- Program for Commencement Exercises at Oxford Graded Schools (MS) on June 1, 1899.
-- Program for Graduating Exercises at Oxford High School (MS) on May 23, 1927.

Folder 5:
-- Handwritten manuscript in lined book, entitled "Life of Rev. James Angel Fox." Fox was the Episcopal rector of St. Alban's Church in or near Vicksburg. He died in 1881 at the age of 88 after serving in the diocese "more than half a century." Born in Connecticut in 1794, he moved to Mississippi a few years after graduating from Yale. Fox was very active at the state level in his church government, and established several schools. The document was apparently written by one of his offspring.

Folder 6
-- Handwritten volume index to flowers and plants appearing in a number of volumes.

Folder 9: Wedding Invitations
-- Marguerite Burleson Rhodes to Dr. John Clifton Culley on November 12 at the First Methodist Church of Oxford, MS. With envelope and reception invitation.
-- Russe Blanks to Lucius McCutchen Butts on November 7 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Vicksburg, MS.
-- Elizabeth Klein Reeder Bonham to Edwin B. Styles on October 4, 1915 in Vicksburg, MS.

Loose:
--Handwritten "Schoolgirl's Herbarium" in blank volume Index Rerum. Entries date from January 1870 -- 1873. Brief essays written in a variety of hands on various subjects. Each essay signed by a pseudonym based on botany; however, the first page lists the following names: W.R. Baker, Beulah Martin, Tillie Binger, Colie Powell, Nettie Goulsby, Ella Faucett, and W.W. Boyette.